A two-element f-θ lens used for a micro-electro mechanical system (mems) laser scanning unit includes a first lens and a second lens, the first lens is a biconvex lens, the second lens is a meniscus lens of which the convex surface is disposed on a side of a mems mirror, at least one optical surface is an aspherical surface in both main scanning direction and sub scanning direction, and satisfies special optical conditions. The two-element f-θ lens corrects the nonlinear relationship between scanned angle and the time into the linear relationship between the image spot distances and the time. Meanwhile, the two-element f-θ lens focuses the scan light to the target in the main scanning and sun scanning directions, such that the purpose of the scanning linearity effect and the high resolution scanning can be achieved.
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1. A two-element fθ lens used for a micro-electro mechanical system (mems) laser scanning unit, said mems laser scanning unit comprising a light source for emitting laser beam, a mems reflecting mirror for reflecting said laser beam emitted by said light source into a scanning light by resonant oscillation, and a target provided for sensing light, said two-element fθ lens being disposed between said target and said mems reflecting mirror, said two-element fθ lens comprising:
a first lens, in a biconvex shape; and
a second lens, in a meniscus shape, and having a convex surface toward said mems reflecting mirror, located between said first lens and said target;
wherein, said first lens included a first optical surface and a second optical surface, at least one of said optical surfaces is an aspherical surface in both main scanning direction and sub scanning direction of said mems laser scanning unit;
wherein, said second lens included a third optical surface and a fourth optical surface, at least one of said optical surfaces is an aspherical surface in both main scanning direction and sub scanning direction of said mems laser scanning unit;
wherein, said two-element fθ lens converts the non-linear relation of reflecting angle with time of said scanning light into a linear relation between the distance of the scan spot with time and focusing the scanning light to form an image at said target.
2. The two-element fθ lens of
wherein, f(1)Y is the focal length of the first lens in the main scanning direction, and f(2)Y is the focal length of the second lens in the main scanning direction, and d3 is the distance from the second optical surface to the third optical surface on the optical axis Z, and d4 is the thickness of the second lens along the optical axis Z, and d5 is the distance from the fourth optical surface to the target side on the optical axis Z.
3. The two-element fθ lens of
in the main scanning direction
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and in the sub scanning direction
wherein, f(1)Y and f(1)X are the focal lengths of the first lens in the main scanning direction and the sub scanning direction respectively, and f(2)Y and f(2)X are the focal lengths of the second lens in the main scanning direction and the sub scanning direction respectively, fs is a combined focal length of the two-element fθ lens, and Rix is the radius of curvature of the i-th optical surface in the X direction; and nd1 and nd2 are refraction indexes of the first lens and the second lens respectively.
4. The two-element fθ lens of
wherein, Sa and Sb are the lengths of any spot formed by a scan light on the target in the main scanning direction and the sub scanning direction, and δ is the ratio of the smallest spot and the largest spot on the target.
5. The two-element fθ lens of
wherein, Sa0 and Sb0 are the lengths of a spot formed by a scan light on a reflecting surface of the mems reflecting mirror in the main scanning direction and the sub scanning direction, and Sa and Sb are the lengths of any spot formed by a scan light on the target in the main scanning direction and the sub scanning direction, and ηmax is the maximum ratio value of the largest spot on the target with the spot on the reflecting surface of the mems reflecting mirror, and ηmin is the minimum ratio value of the largest spot on the target with the spot on the reflecting surface of the mems reflecting mirror.
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The present invention relates to a two-element fθ lens used for a micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning unit (LSU), and more particularly to a two-element fθ lens using an angular change varying with time in a sinusoidal relation for correcting a MEMS reflecting mirror having a simple harmonic movement to achieve the scanning linearity effect by the laser scanning unit.
At present, a laser scanning unit (LSU) used by a laser beam printer (LBP) controls a laser beam scanning by a high-speed rotating polygon mirror as disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 7,079,171, 6,377,293 and 6,295,116 or TW Pat No. I198966, and principles of those inventions are described as the following: a semiconductor laser emits a laser beam through a collimator and an aperture to form parallel beams. After the parallel beams pass through a cylindrical lens, the beams are focused at the width of the X-axis in the sub scanning direction and along a direction parallel to the Y-axis of the main scanning direction to form a line image and projected onto a high-speed rotating polygon mirror. The polygon mirror includes a plurality of continuous reflecting mirrors disposed substantially at or proximate to the focusing position of the line image. The polygon mirror is provided for controlling the direction of projecting the laser beam, so that when a plurality of continuous reflecting mirrors are rotated at high speed, the laser beam projected onto a reflecting mirror can be extended in a direction parallel to the main scanning direction (Y-axis) at the same angular velocity and deviated from and reflected onto a fθ linear scanning lens. The fθ linear scanning lens is installed next to the polygon mirror and may be either a single-element lens structure (or a single scanning lens) or a two-element lens structure. The function of this fθ linear scanning lens is to focus a laser beam reflected by the reflecting mirror of the polygon mirror and projected onto the fθ lens into an oval spot that is projected onto a photoreceptor (or a photoreceptor drum, which is an image surface) to achieve the requirement of the scanning linearity. However, the traditional laser scanning unit (LSU) still has the following drawbacks in its practical use.
(1) The manufacture of the rotating polygon mirror incurs a high level of difficulty and a high cost, and thus increasing the manufacturing cost of the LSU.
(2) The polygon mirror requires a function of a high-speed rotation (such as 40000 rpm) and a high precision, and thus a cylindrical lens is required and installed to the traditional LSU since the width of the general polygon mirror along the Y-axis of the reflecting surface of the mirror is very thin, so that the laser beam pass through the cylindrical lens can be focused and concentrated into a line (or a spot on the Y-axis) and projected onto the reflecting mirror of the polygon mirror. Such arrangement increases the number of components and also complicates the assembling operation procedure.
(3) The traditional polygon mirror requires a high-speed rotation (such as 40000 rpm), and thus the noise level is raised. Furthermore, the polygon mirror takes a longer time to be accelerated from a starting speed to an operating speed, and thus increasing the booting time of the laser scanning.
(4) In the fabrication of the traditional LSU, the central axis of a laser beam projected onto the reflecting mirror of the polygon mirror is not aligned precisely with the central rotating axis of the polygon mirror, so that it is necessary to take the off axis deviation of the polygon mirror into consideration for the design of the fθ lens, and thus increasing the difficulty of design and manufacturing the fθ lens.
In recent years, an oscillatory MEMS reflecting mirror is introduced to overcome the shortcomings of the traditional LSU assembly and replace the laser beam scanning controlled by the traditional polygon mirror. The surface of a torsion oscillator of the MEMS reflecting mirror comprises a reflecting layer, and the reflecting layer is oscillated for reflecting the light and further for the scanning. In the future, such arrangement will be applied in a laser scanning unit (LSU) of an imaging system, a scanner or a laser printer, and its scanning efficiency is higher than the traditional rotating polygon mirror. As disclosed in the U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,844,951 and 6,956,597, at least one driving signal is generated, and its driving frequency approaches the resonant frequency of a plurality of MEMS reflecting mirrors, and the driving signal drives the MEMS reflecting mirror to produce a scanning path. In U.S. Pat. Nos. 7,064,876, 7,184,187, 7,190,499, 2006/0033021, 2007/0008401 and 2006/0279826 or TW Pat No. 253133, or Jp Pat. No. 2006-201350, a MEMS reflecting mirror installed between a collimator and a fθ lens of a LSU module replaces the traditional rotating polygon mirror for controlling the projecting direction of a laser beam. The MEMS reflecting mirror features the advantages of small components, fast rotation, and low manufacturing cost. However, after the MEMS reflecting mirror is driven by the received voltage for a simple harmonic with a sinusoidal relation of time and angular speed, and a laser beam projected on the MEMS reflecting mirror is reflected with a relation of reflecting angle θ(t) and time as follows
θ(t)=θs·sin(2π·f·t) (1)
wherein, f is the scanning frequency of the MEMS reflecting mirror and θs is the maximum scanning angle at a single side (symmetrical with the optical Z axis) after the laser beam passes through the MEMS reflecting mirror.
In the same time interval Δt, the corresponding variation of the reflecting angle is not the same but decreasing, and thus constituting a sinusoidal relation with time. In other words, the variation of the reflecting angle in the same time interval Δt is Δθ(t)=θs·(sin(2π·f·t1)−sin(2π·f·t2)), which constitutes a non-linear relation with time. If the reflected light is projected onto the target from a different angle, the distance from the spot will be different in the same time interval due to the different angle.
Since the angle of the MEMS reflecting mirror situated at a peak and a valley of a sine wave varies with time, and the rotating movements if a traditional polygon mirror are at a constant angular speed, if a traditional fθ lens is installed on a laser scanning unit (LSU) of the MEMS reflecting mirror, the angle of the MEMS reflecting mirror produced by the sinusoidal relation varied with time cannot be corrected, so that the speed of laser beam projected on an image side will not an uniform speed scanning, and the image on the image side will be deviated. Therefore, the laser scanning unit or the MEMS laser scanning unit (MEMS LSU) composed of MEMS reflecting mirrors has a characteristic that after the laser beam is scanned by the MEMS reflecting mirror, scan lights at different angles are formed in the same time. Thus, finding a way of developing a fθ lens (some prior art named as f-sin θ lens) for the MEMS laser scanning unit to correct the scan lights, such that a correct image will be projected onto the light, examples as, U.S. Pat. No. 7,184,187 provided a polynomial surface for fθ lens to adjust the angular velocity variation in the main-scanning direction only. However, the laser light beam is essential an oval-like shape of the cross section that corrects the scan lights in the main-scanning direction only may not be achieve the accuracy requirement. Since, a fθ lens with main-scanning direction correcting as well as sub-scanning direction correcting demands immediate attentions and feasible solutions.
The primary objective of the present invention is to overcome the shortcomings of the prior art by providing a two-element lens used for a micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning unit, which comprises a first lens in a biconvex shape, and a second lens in a meniscus lens having a convex surface on a side of a MEMS mirror, counted from the MEMS reflecting mirror, for projecting a scan light reflected by the MEMS reflecting mirror onto the correct image of a target to achieve a scanning linearity effect required by the laser scanning unit.
Another objective of the present invention is to provide a two-element fθ lens used for a micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning unit for reducing the area of a spot projected onto the target to achieve the effect of improving the resolution.
A further object of the present invention is to provide a two-element fθ lens used for a MEMS laser scanning unit, and the two-element fθ lens can make a distortion correction to correct optical axis caused by the deviation of the scan light resulting in the problems of an increased deviation of the main scanning direction and the sub scanning direction, and a change of a spot of a drum at the image into an oval like shape, and the two-element fθ lens can unify the size of each image spot to achieve the effect of enhancing the image quality.
Therefore, the two-element lens used for a micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning unit of the invention is applicable for a light source comprising an emitting laser beam, wherein a resonant oscillation is used for reflecting the laser beam of the light source onto MEMS reflecting mirror of the scan light to form an image on the target. As to a laser printer, the target is generally a drum. The spot of the image forms a scan light after the laser beam is emitted from the light source, scanned oscillatory by the MEMS reflecting mirror, and reflected by the MEMS reflecting mirror. After the angle and position of the scan light are corrected by the two-element fθ lens of the invention, a spot may be formed on the drum. Since a photosensitive agent is coated onto the drum, data can be printed out on a piece of paper by the sensing carbon powder centralized on the paper.
The two-element fθ lens of the invention comprises a first lens and a second lens, counted from the MEMS reflecting mirror, wherein the first lens includes a first optical surface and a second optical surface, the second lens includes a third optical surface and a fourth optical surface. These optical surfaces provide the functions of correcting the phenomenon of non-uniform speed scanning which results in decreasing or increasing the distance between spots on an image surface of a MEMS reflecting mirror with a simple harmonic movement with time into a constant speed scanning, so that the projection of a laser beam onto an image side can give a constant speed scanning, and unify the deviation of image formed on the drum which caused by a scan light in the main scanning direction and the sub scanning direction deviated from the optical axis, so as to make the correction to focus the scan light at a target.
To make it easier for our examiner to understand the technical characteristics and effects of the present invention, we use preferred embodiments and related drawings for the detailed description of the present invention as follows.
Referring to
Since the MEMS reflecting mirror 10 comes with a simple harmonic movement, and the angle of movement shows a sinusoidal change with time as shown in
Referring to
Referring to
To achieve the forgoing effects, the two-element fθ lens of the invention comes with a first lens having a first optical surface and a second optical lens having a third optical surface and a fourth optical surface of with a spherical surface or an aspherical surface. If the Aspherical surface is adopted, the aspherical surface is designed with the following equations (2) or (3)
1. Anamorphic Equation
where, Z is the sag of any point on the surface parallel to the Z-axis, Cx and Cy are curvatures in the X direction and the Y direction respectively, Kx and Ky are the conic coefficients in the X direction and the Y direction respectively and correspond to eccentric city in the same way as conic coefficient for the Aspherical surface type, AR, BR, CR and DR are deformations from the conic coefficient of rotationally symmetric portions of the fourth order, the sixth order, the eighth order and the tenth order respectively, and AP, BP, CP and DP are deformation from the conic coefficient of non-rotationally symmetric components to the fourth order, the sixth order, the eight order and the tenth order respectively. This reduces to Aspherical surface type when Cx=Cy, Kx=Ky and AP=BP=CP=DP=0.
2. Toric Equation
where, Z is the sag of any point on the surface parallel to the Z-axis; Cy and Cx are curvatures in the X direction and the Y direction respectively, Ky is a conic coefficient in the Y direction, B4, B6, B8 and B10 are deformations from the conic coefficient to the fourth, sixth, eight and tenth order respectively. When Cx=Cy and Ky=Ap=Bp=Cp=Dp=0 is reduced to a single spherical surface.
To unify the scan speed of the scan light projected onto the image of the target, the invention adopts two equal time interval and an equal distance between two spots, and the two-element fθ lens of the invention can correct the emergence angle of the scan light between the scan light 113a to the scan light 113b, so that the first lens 131 and the second lens 132 corrects the emergence angle of the scan light to produce two scan lights at the same time interval. After the emergence angle is corrected, the distance between any two spots formed on the drum 15 of the image is equal. Further, after the laser beam 111 is reflected by the MEMS reflected mirror 10, the spot is diverged and becomes larger. After the scan light is passed through the distance from the MEMS reflecting mirror 10 to the drum 15, the spot becomes larger. Such arrangement is incompliance with the actual required resolution. The two-element fθ lens of the invention further focuses from the scan light 113a to the scan light 113b reflected by the MEMS reflecting mirror 10 at the drum 15 of the image to from a smaller spot in the main scanning and sub scanning directions. The two-element fθ lens of the invention further uniforms the spot size of the image on the drum 15 (to limit spot size in a range to comply with the required resolution) for the best condition.
The two-element fθ lens comprises a first lens 131 and a second lens 132, counted from the MEMS reflecting mirror 10, and the first lens is a biconvex lens, the second lens is a meniscus lens of which the convex surface is disposed on a side of a MEMS mirror, wherein the first lens 131 includes a first optical surface 131a and a second optical surface 131b for converting a scan spot with a non-linear relation between angle and time and reflected by the MEMS reflecting mirror 10 into a scan spot with a linear relation between distance and time; and the second lens 132 includes a third optical surface 132a and a fourth optical surface 132b for correcting the focus of the scan light of the first lens 131 onto target; such that the two-element fθ lens projects a scan light reflected by the MEMS reflecting mirror 10 onto the image of the drum 15. The first optical surface 131a, the second optical surface 131b, the third optical surface 132a and the fourth optical surface 132b are optical surfaces composed of at least one Aspherical surface in the main scanning direction. The first optical surface 131a and the second optical surface 131b are optical surfaces composed of at least one aspherical surface in the sub scanning direction. Further, the assembly of the first lens 131 and the second lens 132 of the two-element fθ lens in accordance with the present invention has an optical effect in the main scanning direction that satisfies the conditions of Equation (4) and (5):
or, the main scanning direction satisfies the conditions of equation (6)
and the sub scanning direction satisfies the conditions of equation (7)
where, f(1)Y is the focal length of the first lens 131 in the main scanning direction, f(2)Y is the focal length of the second lens 132 in the main scanning direction, d3 is the distance between an optical surface on a target side of the first lens 131 when θ=0° and an optical surface on the MEMS reflecting mirror side of the second lens 132, d4 is the thickness of the second lens when θ=0°, d5 is the distance between an optical surface on a target side of the second lens 132 when θ=0° and the target, f(1)X is the focal length of the first lens in the sub scanning direction, f(2)X is the focal length of the second lens in the sub scanning direction, fs is the combined focal length of the two-element fθ lens, Rix is the radius of curvature of the i-th optical surface in the X direction; and nd1 and nd2 are the refraction indexes of the first lens and the second lens 13 respectively.
Further, the spot uniformity produced by the two-element fθ lens of the invention can be indicated by the ratio δ of the largest spot and the smallest spot size that satisfies the conditions of Equation (8):
The resolution produced by the two-element fθ lens of the invention can be indicated by the ratio ηmax of the largest spot on the drum 15 formed by the scan light on the reflecting surface of the MEMS reflecting mirror 10 (or the ratio of scanning light of maximum spot) and the ratio ηmin of the smallest spot formed by the scan light on the reflecting surface of the MEMS reflecting mirror 10 (or the ratio of scanning light of minimum spot), and the ratios satisfy the conditions of Equations (9) and (10)
where, Sa and Sb are the lengths of any one spot of the scan light formed on the drum in the main scanning direction and the sub scanning direction, δ is the ratio of the smallest spot and the largest spot on the drum 15, Sa0 and Sb0 are the lengths of the spots of the scan light on the reflecting surface of the MEMS reflecting mirror 10 in the main scanning direction and the sub scanning direction respectively.
To make it easier for our examiner to understand the structure and technical characteristics of the present invention, we use the preferred embodiments accompanied with related drawings for the detailed description of the present invention as follows.
The following preferred embodiments of the invention disclose a two-element fθ lens used for a micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning unit by using major elements for the illustration, and thus the preferred embodiments can be applied in a MEMS laser scanning unit including but not limited to the two-element fθ lens with components illustrated in the embodiments only, but any other equivalents are intended to be covered in the scope of the present invention. In other words, any variation and modification of the two-element fθ lens used for a micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning unit can be made by the persons skilled in the art. For example, the radius of curvature of the first lens and the second lens, the design of the shape, the selected material and the distance can be adjusted without any particular limitation.
In a first preferred embodiment, the two-element fθ lens comprises a first lens and a second lens. The first lens is a biconvex lens, the second lens is a meniscus lens of which the convex surface is disposed on a side of a MEMS mirror, and a first optical surface of the first lens is a Spherical surface; a second optical surface of the first lens, and a third optical surface and a fourth optical surface of the second lens are all Aspherical surfaces designed in accordance with the Equation (2), and the optical characteristics and the Aspherical surface parameters are listed in Tables 1 and 2.
TABLE 1
Optical Characteristics of fθ lens for First Preferred Embodiment
nd, refraction
optical surface
radius (mm)
d, thickness (mm)
index
MEMS Reflection
R0
∞
23.95
1
lens 1
1.527
R1
R1x
−401.843
20.00
R1y
400.000
R2 (Anamorphic)
R2x*
−15.920
10.00
R2y*
−57.633
lens 2
1.527
R3 (Anamorphic)
R3x*
37.658
10.00
R3y*
243.482
R4 (Anamorphic)
R4x*
39.944
103.15
R4y*
94.803
drum R5
∞
0.00
*Aspherical surface
TABLE 2
Parameters of Aspherical Surface of Optical Surface Parameter for First Preferred
Embodiment
Anamorphic equation Coefficient
4th Order
6th Order
8th Order
10th Order
Ky, Conic
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
optical surface
Coefficient
(AR)
(BR)
(CR)
(DR)
R2*
−9.9403E−01
−3.0660E−07
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R3*
−2.2425E+01
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R4*
−7.3392E−01
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
4th Order
6th Order
8th Order
10th Order
Kx, Conic
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
(AP)
(BP)
(CP)
(DP)
R2*
−1.2224E+00
−1.4424E−01
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R3*
1.9159E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R4*
−2.1615E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
Referring to
TABLE 3
Conditions for first Preferred Embodiment
1.2695
−0.3422
0.4744
0.1019
0.8858
0.0362
0.0320
TABLE 4
The maximum diameter (μm) of light spot on the drum
Y
−107.460
−95.784
−84.003
−95.784
−60.222
−48.240
−36.214
−24.158
0.000
Max diameter
1.08E−02
1.13E−02
7.29E−03
6.17E−03
9.26E−03
4.66E−03
6.24E−03
3.74E−03
5.06E−03
In a second preferred embodiment, the two-element fθ lens comprises a first lens and a second lens. The first lens is a biconvex lens, the second lens is a meniscus lens of which the convex surface is disposed on a side of a MEMS mirror, and a first optical surface of the first lens is an Aspherical surface designed in accordance with the Equation (3), and a second optical surface of the first lens, a third optical surface and a fourth optical surface of the second lens are all Aspherical surfaces designed in accordance with the Equation (2), and the optical characteristics and the Aspherical surface parameters are listed in Tables 5 and 6.
TABLE 5
Optical characteristics of fθ lens for Second Preferred Embodiment.
nd, refraction
optical surface
radius (mm)
d, thickness (mm)
index
MEMS Reflection
R0
∞
32.92
1
lens 1
1.527
R1 (Y Toroid)
R1x
−141.093
16.51
R1y*
400.000
R2 (Anamorphic)
R2x*
−16.714
10.00
R2y*
−55.262
lens 2
1.527
R3 (Anamorphic)
R3x*
39.527
10.00
R3y*
215.411
R4 (Anamorphic)
R4x*
38.150
102.34
R4y*
81.869
drum R5
∞
0.00
*Aspherical surface
TABLE 6
Parameters of Aspherical Surface of Optical Surface Parameter for Second
Preferred Embodiment
Toric equation Coefficient
4th Order
6th Order
8th Order
10th Order
Ky, Conic
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
optical surface
Coefficient
(B4)
(B6)
(B8)
(B10)
R1*
−1.0000E+01
−3.2009E−07
4.6963E−11
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
Anamorphic equation Coefficient
4th Order
6th Order
8th Order
10th Order
Ky, Conic
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
optical surface
Coefficient
(AR)
(BR)
(CR)
(DR)
R2*
−1.0058E+00
−5.6043E−07
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R3*
−2.0178E+01
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R4*
−1.7237E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
4th Order
6th Order
8th Order
10th Order
Kx, Conic
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
(AP)
(BP)
(CP)
(DP)
R2*
−1.1181E+00
−1.7599E−01
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R3*
1.6365E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R4*
−3.2735E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
Referring to
TABLE 7
Conditions for Second Preferred Embodiment
1.3119
−0.3980
0.4744
0.0244
0.8903
0.0295
0.0262
TABLE 8
The maximum diameter (μm) of geometric spot on the drum
Y
−107.446
−95.780
−84.008
−95.780
−60.226
−48.240
−36.211
−24.153
0.000
Max diameter
8.17E−03
2.71E−03
3.67E−03
3.94E−03
4.95E−03
5.01E−03
4.88E−03
4.86E−03
3.60E−03
In a third preferred embodiment, the two-element fθ lens comprises a first lens and a second lens. The first lens is a biconvex lens, the second lens is a meniscus lens of which the convex surface is disposed on a side of a MEMS mirror, and a second optical surface of the first lens, a third optical surface and a fourth optical surface of the second lens are all Aspherical surfaces designed in accordance with the Equation (2), and a first optical surface of the first lens is an Aspherical surface designed in accordance with the Equation (3), and the optical characteristics and the Aspherical surface parameters are listed in Tables 9 and 10.
TABLE 9
Optical Characteristics of fθ Lens for Third Preferred Embodiment
nd, refraction
optical surface
radius (mm)
d, thickness (mm)
index
MEMS Reflection
R0
∞
35.26
1
lens 1
1.527
R1 (Y Toroid)
R1x
1071.257
17.37
R1y*
400.000
R2 (Anamorphic)
R2x*
−19.258
13.06
R2y*
−58.847
lens 2
1.527
R3 (Anamorphic)
R3x*
40.826
10.00
R3y*
170.264
R4 (Anamorphic)
R4x*
42.159
99.15
R4y*
80.509
drum R5
∞
0.00
*Aspherical surface
TABLE 10
Parameters of Aspherical Surface for Third Preferred Embodiment
Toric equation Coefficient
4th Order
6th Order
8th Order
10th Order
optical
Ky, Conic
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
surface
Coefficient
(B4)
(B6)
(B8)
(B10)
R1*
2.5832E+01
−9.3164E−08
−8.7010E−12
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
Anamorphic equation Coefficient
4th Order
6th Order
8th Order
10th Order
optical
Ky, Conic
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
surface
Coefficient
(AR)
(BR)
(CR)
(DR)
R2*
−1.2468E+00
−4.7617E−07
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R3*
−9.7449E+00
−3.5514E−07
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R4*
−2.6970E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
4th Order
6th Order
8th Order
10th Order
Kx, Conic
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
(AP)
(BP)
(CP)
(DP)
R2*
−1.1889E+00
−5.0499E−02
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R3*
−6.0124E−01
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R4*
−3.3771E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
Referring to
TABLE 11
Conditions for Third Preferred Embodiment
1.2396
−0.3291
0.4641
0.0779
0.8875
0.0279
0.0248
TABLE 12
The maximum diameter (μm) of geometric spot on the drum
Y
−107.460
−95.785
−83.993
−95.785
−60.211
−48.240
−36.223
−24.170
0.000
Max diameter
1.35E−03
1.08E−03
9.67E−04
9.59E−04
7.11E−04
7.26E−04
8.17E−04
8.66E−04
7.85E−04
In a fourth preferred embodiment, the two-element fθ lens comprises a first lens and a second lens. The first lens is a biconvex lens, the second lens is a meniscus lens of which the convex surface is disposed on a side of a MEMS mirror, and a first optical surface and a second optical surface of the first lens, a third optical surface and a fourth of the second lens are all Aspherical surfaces designed in accordance with the Equation (2), and the optical characteristics and the Aspherical surface parameters are listed in Tables 13 and 14.
TABLE 13
Optical Characteristics of fθ lens for Fourth Preferred Embodiment
nd, refraction
optical surface
radius (mm)
d, thickness (mm)
index
MEMS Reflection
R0
∞
23.78
1
lens 1
1.527
R1 (Anamorphic)
R1x*
72.905
10.00
R1y*
300.000
R2 (Anamorphic)
R2x*
−15.279
15.00
R2y*
−101.898
lens 2
1.527
R3 (Anamorphic)
R3x*
46.380
10.00
R3y*
83.255
R4 (Anamorphic)
R4x*
48.595
102.57
R4y*
91.185
drum R5
∞
0.00
*Aspherical surface
TABLE 14
Parameters of Aspherical Surface of Optical Surface for Fourth Preferred
Embodiment
Anamorphic equation Coefficient
4th Order
6th Order
8th Order
10th Order
Ky, Conic
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
optical surface
Coefficient
(AR)
(BR)
(CR)
(DR)
R1*
6.2310E+00
−1.8496E−07
1.5698E−10
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R2*
1.2741E+00
−1.4151E−06
9.2707E−10
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R3*
−1.0000E+01
−9.5290E−07
4.3587E−11
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R4*
−2.8117E+00
−2.6310E−08
7.2636E−12
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
4th Order
6th Order
8th Order
10th Order
Kx, Conic
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
(AP)
(BP)
(CP)
(DP)
R1*
−1.3649E+01
−1.3424E−02
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R2*
−1.5597E+00
3.6520E−01
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R3*
−1.0000E+01
−3.1437E−02
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R4*
3.0879E+00
−3.6877E−01
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
Referring to
TABLE 15
Conditions for Fourth Preferred Embodiment
0.8766
0.08108
0.5156
0.1018
0.8457
0.0530
0.0449
TABLE 16
The maximum diameter(μm) of geometric spot on target drum
Y
−108.353
−96.083
−83.843
−96.083
−59.704
−47.760
−35.840
−23.912
0.000
Max diameter
5.10E−03
5.08E−03
4.41E−03
3.08E−03
2.29E−03
3.49E−03
4.62E−03
4.95E−03
3.23E−03
In a fifth preferred embodiment, the two-element fθ lens comprises a first lens and a second lens. The first lens is a biconvex lens, the second lens is a meniscus lens of which the convex surface is disposed on a side of a MEMS mirror, a first optical surface and a second optical surface of the first lens, a third optical surface and a fourth optical surface of the second lens are all Aspherical surfaces designed in accordance with the Equation (2), and the optical characteristics and the Aspherical surface parameters are listed in Tables 17 and 18.
TABLE 17
Optical Characteristics of fθ Lens for Fifth Preferred Embodiment
nd, refraction
optical surface
radius (mm)
d, thickness (mm)
index
MEMS Reflection
R0
∞
23.90
1
lens 1
1.527
R1 (Anamorphic)
R1x*
106.917
10.00
R1y*
397.678
R2 (Anamorphic)
R2x*
−16.017
15.00
R2y*
−91.774
lens 2
1.527
R3 (Anamorphic)
R3x*
38.791
10.00
R3y*
91.393
R4 (Anamorphic)
R4x*
55.664
104.23
R4y*
96.496
drum R5
∞
0.00
*Aspherical surface
TABLE 18
Parameters of Aspherical Surface of Optical Surface for Fifth Preferred
Embodiment
Anamorphic equation Coefficient
8th Order
10th Order
Ky, Conic
4th Order Coefficient
6th Order Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
optical surface
Coefficient
(AR)
(BR)
(CR)
(DR)
R1*
1.4872E+02
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R2*
3.2591E−01
−9.4116E−07
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R3*
−1.0000E+01
−9.5386E−07
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R4*
−4.5042E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
8th Order
10th Order
Kx, Conic
4th Order Coefficient
6th Order Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
optical surface
Coefficient
(AP)
(BP)
(CP)
(DP)
R1*
−1.2185E+01
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R2*
−1.5179E+00
2.9814E−01
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R3*
−6.7785E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
R4*
1.5333E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
Referring to
TABLE 19
Conditions for Fifth Preferred Embodiment
0.9073
0.0533
0.5138
0.2618
0.8756
0.0465
0.0407
TABLE 20
The maximum diameter (μm) of geometric spot on target drum
Y
−107.452
−95.877
−84.041
−95.877
−60.187
−48.234
−36.245
−24.205
0.000
Max diameter
1.01E−02
6.02E−03
5.35E−03
4.34E−03
4.56E−03
6.11E−03
6.32E−03
6.53E−03
6.09E−03
In view of the aforementioned preferred embodiments, the present invention at least has the following effects:
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